He has to find a way to find external sources of resources he needs to help his life seeds transform or he will die.
These external sources of energy that are easily digested are pills made from life-preserving plants or life essence made from purified life energy.
The latter is a secret option that not many people are aware of. Life essence is also a better option than pills because the energy within it is of higher quality and easier to absorb than pills.
The use of life essence to maintain his life and the immense potential contained within his life seeds meant that the difficulty of successfully advancing is lower than that of others.
The main reason he thinks he is failing and dying is because he is really dying. The dying part is real. It was why his life experience flashed before his eyes.
He is still dying, but his state won't last long. After getting the resources they needed, his life seeds managed to split into two successful ones.
All 512 of them successfully split into two. This increased the number of life seeds within him to 1,024.
Possessing 1,024 life seeds is a mark of a perfect foundation. This is a special achievement because not everyone has the potential to reach the tenth transformation of the third mortal coil, and not everyone who managed to reach the tenth transformation has 1,024 life seeds.
The people that managed to reach the tenth transformation but don't have 1,024 life seeds must have encountered some accidents in their cultivation journey that destroyed one or more life seeds.
Life seeds can be destroyed while fighting an enemy. An injury that damaged their internal organs can render some life seeds too damaged to continue splitting.
Life seeds can also be destroyed during the process of advancing to the next transformation. This is a more dangerous situation, as it can lead to failure to advance and death compared to a mere injury to some life seeds.
Whatever reason caused the loss of life seeds, it is common knowledge that the earlier the loss, the worse the consequences.
If he had lost one life seed while he was at the first transformation of the third mortal coil with two life seeds, that life seed would become unable to split, so he would lose half of his potential. That means that the highest amount of life seeds he will have will be 512, not 1024.
If the loss of one life seed had happened when he was at the second transformation with four life seeds, he would only lose 25% of his potential. So the maximum amount of life seeds he will be able to have will be 768.
If he loses one life seed now, what he would lose is just one life seed, not the 512 life seeds of the first transformation or the 256 life seeds of the second mortal coil.
This is why it is said that the earlier the injury to one's potential, the worse the consequences can be. Not only will the loss of life seeds affect the maximum amount of life seeds, but it will also affect the maximum power output of the cultivator.
Fortunately, all hope is not lost. If a life seed is lost, it is possible to heal life seeds with medicine. The medicine will be very expensive, and it might be impossible to recover the potential to split, but it is still possible to heal the injury and salvage the situation.
Even if 512 life seeds are lost forever, it won't be the end of the road because 100 life seeds are the minimum amount of life seeds that a cultivator must have if they are to advance to the fourth mortal coil.
100 life seeds out of a maximum of 1,024 life seeds is a very low bar to meet in order to transcend the third mortal coil. Or so it seems. But only those who manage to reach the seventh transformation of the third mortal coil can meet that requirement.
100 life seeds is just 9.77% of 1,024 life seeds. But in order to achieve it, one will have to go through seven intentional near-death experiences. It doesn't seem fair at all.
It doesn't seem fair to go through seven near-death experiences out of the maximum ten just to get 128 life seeds for their efforts. But the world isn't fair.
If anyone wants more than 128 life seeds, those 128 lode seeds must have the potential to advance again, and the cultivator themselves must be willing to bet everything they have for double the reward.
Only those who gamble ten times in a row and survive each intentional near-death attempt get to have 1,024 life seeds like him. So yes, it is an impressive achievement worthy of praise to have 1,024 life seeds.
It is something worthy of pride to achieve what he has achieved. And as he looked at his status through the Mountain Sitting Dao, that pride only increased.
-MOUNTAIN SITTING DAO
State of Existence: Third Mortal Coil (Tenth Transformation of Foundation Establishment)
Life Span: 43 > > 53/(400)
-DIVINE ABILITIES
1. Mountain Karma: Level 5 (243,763,343,386/10,000,000,000,000)
2. Mountain Foundation: Level 4 (47,435,178,532/100,000,000,000)
3. Fate Identification: Level 5.
4. ????: ------
-POWER.
1. Power (Body Refining) = 10 (Body) × 22 (Armament Power) × 512 (Life Seed Power) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 563,200 (56.32D).
2. Power (Energy Refining) = 10 (Spell) × 22 (Armament Power) × 512 (Life Seed Power) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 563,200 (56.32D).
-ATTRIBUTES.
1. Mind: 11. Mental Energy: 1,000.
2. Internal Energy (Quantity): 512,000. Internal Energy (Quality): 11.
3. Body: 10. Life Force: 11.
4. Life Seed (Quantity): 2 > > 1,024. Life Seed (Power): 50% of 1,024 = 512. Armament Power: 11 (Life Force) + 11 (Internal Energy QLTY) = 22.
-TECHNIQUES.
C: RANK 3.
1. Unification of Hearts, Mind, and Body Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
2. Wood Element Host: 10% > > 50% Mastery.
3. Lightning Element Host: 10% > > 50% Mastery.
4. Beast Link.
5. Life and Death Lightning Art: 51% > > 95% Mastery.
6. Lightning Angel Spell: 100%.
7. Lightning Wood Spell: 100%.
8. Wood Burial Spell: 100%.
9. Wood Army Spell: 100%.
-TALENTS.
1. Plant Affinity and Communication.
2. Lightning Call.
3. Wood to Lightning Conversion.
4. Lightning to Wood Conversion.
5. Lightning Resistance.
6. Overclock Mode.